notes from the long run

Month: February 2012

I left off last week tired and a little annoyed at having bunched what was a string of fairly tough sessions together over four consecutive days, and it turned out that just one rest day wasn’t enough. Walking home from the station on Tuesday evening my legs felt odd. It was difficult to pinpoint a… Read More Injuries and PBs

Being half term holidays, I thought it’d be nice to also have the week off work with the wifey to chill out together. Which it was. I also thought it would be a great opportunity to get some solid training miles in whilst the sun was actually shining. Which it kind of wasn’t. The training… Read More What a silly week of training

Back in the day when I was a bona-fidey arteest – a Photography Degree graduate – I wrote my disertation on what we can call art, specifically I wrote about images portraying death and whether we could classify them as artistic. Don’t worry, I am making a running relevant point here. I read a while… Read More All in the name of Art

Fearing the world was going to fall apart last week following the snowfall at the weekend I was pretty happy to get out on the road on Tuesday evening. Having taken a small tumble onto my backside on Monday morning, I was a little cautious about running in the melting snow which was freezing as… Read More oh, The Weather Outside is Frightful

Somewhat fortuitously, within days of hearing the diagnosis of ‘shin-splints’ I seemed to stumble across a series of training events hosted by Runners Need set up to help Spring Marathoners. This is a series of three talks, one each in Feb, March and April. Full details of the next two events are on their facebook… Read More Stretching the Truth, IT-BS